3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017 2021-06-29 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 doi: Dally, T., Evans, W.L., Jane, J. (2021). Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 A collection of six morphometric measurements (forewing length, body length, thorax length, thorax width, abdomen length, and abdomen width) relating to the 177 macro-moth species sampled by two Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) light traps (Bentley Wood and Porton Down III) from 33 days across 2017 (11-14 & 31 May; 1, 14-21 & 25-27 June; and 1-11, 17-18, and 24-26 July). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 Dally, T. School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds fbstmd@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7314-656X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Dally, T. School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds fbstmd@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7314-656X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Evans, W.L. School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds williamlloydevans@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2827-9165 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Jane, J. School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds ed12jj@leeds.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Leeds fbstmd@leeds.ac.uk owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication lepidopteran GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Moths Rothamsted Insect Survey light trap morphometric forewing body length abdomen thorax otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dally, T., Evans, W.L., Jane, J. (2021). Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 textTable 0.0001 English utf8 biota 2017-05-11 2017-07-26 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Since the RIS light-trap network does not collect and store physical samples, our morphometric trait database was primarily constructed using images of these 177 macro-moth species, namely digitised specimens from the collection of the Natural History Museum, London (NHM). Measurements were taken from 5 randomly-selected digitised specimens per species using ImageJ software. Where significant sexual dimorphism was present within a species, 5 specimens were randomly selected per sex per species. For macro-moth species without digitised records from the NHM, measurements were taken from the (to scale) photographic colour plates within Skinner, B. 2009. Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles. 3rd ed. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books, using Duratool digital callipers (resolution: 0.1mm; accuracy: ±0.2mm).